Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-07-14
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Moisture is essential to fertility.
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To be carefully done-grafting.
The most economical preparation
for the crop is to bring the soil TO q
fine tilth.
Even in warm weather hot mess
will be relished by tho pigs, and will
promote their health.
IT the hogs have NO pasture to run
in, they should be given plenty Of
freshly-cut grass. weeds, oats, corn, or
any thing else thcy like.-Prairie
Farmer
There is always fair demand for
the best products of the soil, and
when then they are obtained by skill
full management there is also fair
margin of profit Farm, Field and
| Stockmdn
-Apiarists agree that the bees, II
left to themselves, will complete from
seventy to ninety por cent. of the Sec
tions given them, and may by force
ing be made to complete them all.
To harden wood pulleys. Soft ma
pie is often used in the construction of
friction pulleys II 1t is boiled in olive
oil it will prove beneficial in number
of ways. 1t will harden the timber and
render it less liable to split, md at the
same time the gear will slip more after
such treatment.
| If hen only lays one egg q week
for year it will pay for her food, and
every additional egg Is clear profit,
says writer II hen lays three eggs
q week she viii give double tho profit
derived from hen that lays two eggs.
The greater the number of eggs tho
cheaper the cost Of producing in pro-
portion. Il Cincinnati Times.
Weeds multiply very rapidly. The
number of seeds each plant Is capable
Of producing is estimated as follows :
Dandelion, 1900; shepherds purse.
$1,000; pepper grass, $4,000; wheat
thief, 1000; common thistle, $1,000 ;
chamomile, 10000; ragweed. 5000
; butter weed, 5000; purslainc, $685.
2 900; plantain, $4,000, and burdock,
$4,000.
Tho Rural World dilates on the
= desirability Of employing married men
as farm laborors. A married man will
. be less addicted to dissolute spendthrif
:, habits; he will do more and better
u work than an unmarried man, having
, more incentives to labor and taking
y more pleasure in his work. Besides
,, :. who can estimate the advantages o
~ having the farm help cared for OUTSIDE
- the farmers family.
III Now is tho time when the best car
+ Of your working stock will pay yo
: best. Groom your horses daily m
10 thoroughly. Rub them dry. If the
- come in wet Feed carefully and wit
40 judgment Give them water frcel
u only when cool. 1t Is not q bad idt
VI to set pail of water in the horse
hangers at night, especially who
hs they do not drink freely II offered w
y ter at that time.-Our Country Hon,
=. The LiUc Stock Journal says tn
Nv Wv 1t would be rs reasonable to expo
y. ~ good bread from flour made Of dan
~ aged grain as pure milk from Gov
y with rations of food tainted by age {
- y soured through exposure to heat m
=. - moisture. The putridity contained
~ ~ dccaying food cntors and poisons II
70 :. blood, and 1t is from tho blood th'
= the milk is extracted in the udde
W. !. Lot no man Hatter himself that the d
-. 20 gestive organs can separate the p'
Z, tridity. casting It aside; on the oth'
h hand. the damaged material go'
~ ~ wherever the blood goes-to the lung
ne ne liver, kidneys and uddcr. and in Il
~ =. latter enters the milk.